Head of Cybersecurity

Key Responsibilities

1. Own KIDAN's Cybersecurity Posture

• Own KIDAN's overall cybersecurity posture, strategy, policies, standards and roadmap.
  
• Ensure cybersecurity is embedded across KIDAN's technology, operations and internal environment.
  
• Identify and challenge cyber risks, gaps and priorities, and drive corrective actions.
  
• Own cybersecurity compliance and support certifications and frameworks such as ISO 27001.
  
• Work closely with Technology, Operations and leadership to ensure cybersecurity is built into how KIDAN operates.
  
• Be technically involved in assessing KIDAN's cybersecurity architecture, technologies, configurations, controls and implementations.
  
• Regularly go beyond governance and documentation to validate that cyber controls are actually implemented and working effectively in practice.
  

2. Provide Hands-On Technical Cybersecurity Leadership

• Act as a technical cybersecurity leader who can get into the field and work directly with technical teams.
  
• Review and challenge cybersecurity architectures, technical designs, configurations, implementations and controls.
  
• Participate directly in complex cyber investigations, incident response, escalations and technical problem-solving when required.
  
• Work alongside engineers, cybersecurity specialists and SOC analysts to solve complex cyber challenges and improve technical capabilities.
  
• Maintain a strong understanding of the technologies, tools and platforms used across KIDAN's cybersecurity environment.
  
• Be able to independently understand and assess technical cyber issues rather than relying exclusively on the team for technical interpretation.
  
• Set the technical standard for the cybersecurity organization and continuously raise the team's technical maturity.
  
• Remain sufficiently hands-on to maintain technical credibility with both internal teams and enterprise customers.
  

3. Own & Develop the Cybersecurity Offering

• Own the strategy, quality and relevance of KIDAN's cybersecurity offering.
  
• Continuously challenge and improve our cybersecurity services, capabilities and value proposition.
  
• Ensure our SOC and cybersecurity services (e.g. detection and response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, cyber resilience) are technically strong, operationally mature and aligned with enterprise customer needs.
  
• Stay close to the actual delivery of our cybersecurity services and understand how our offerings are implemented in real customer environments.
  
• Work with the commercial and technology teams to identify opportunities to grow KIDAN's cybersecurity business and revenue.
  
• Ensure what we sell is what we can genuinely deliver at a high standard.
  
• Participate in the design and evolution of cybersecurity solutions, architectures and service models.
  
• Support the team in complex technical customer opportunities where senior cybersecurity expertise is required.
  

4. Challenge Cybersecurity Delivery

• Ensure cybersecurity services and projects are delivered to a consistently high standard.
  
• Stay close to delivery and regularly engage with the teams doing the technical work.
  
• Challenge processes, technical decisions, architecture and delivery quality where cybersecurity standards are not met.
  
• Review technical deliverables and cybersecurity implementations where appropriate.
  
• Oversee the SOC team and ensure strong operational performance, processes, quality and continuous improvement.
  
• Establish clear cybersecurity KPIs, controls and quality standards.
  
• Step into critical delivery, technical escalations or cyber incidents when the situation requires senior technical expertise.
  
• Ensure lessons from cyber incidents, projects and customer engagements are translated into improvements across the cybersecurity function.
  

5. Enterprise Customer & Cybersecurity Escalation Point

• Act as a senior cybersecurity point of contact for key enterprise customers.
  
• Be comfortable going into customer environments and engaging directly with technical teams, cybersecurity teams, IT leaders and executives.
  
• Lead or support customer discussions around cybersecurity strategy, architecture, compliance, cyber risk and major requirements.
  
• Participate in technical workshops, cyber risk assessments, architecture discussions and complex customer engagements.
  
• Act as the escalation point for critical cybersecurity topics, incidents and customer concerns.
  
• Be able to discuss technical cybersecurity topics at depth with experienced customer cyber and IT professionals.
  
• Build trust with customers by bringing strong technical expertise, credibility and business understanding.
  

6. Cybersecurity Leadership & Governance

• Establish clear cybersecurity governance, ownership and decision-making across KIDAN.
  
• Ensure cyber risks are visible and appropriately escalated to leadership.
  
• Partner with Technology, Compliance, Operations and other functions on cybersecurity priorities and risk management.
  
• Lead, coach and develop the cybersecurity team, creating a culture of technical excellence, ownership and continuous improvement.
  
• Lead by technical credibility and expertise, not only through management and delegation.
  
• Stay current on relevant cyber threats, attacker techniques, technologies, regulations and industry standards, and translate them into actionable priorities for KIDAN.
  

What Great Looks Like

• KIDAN has a strong, credible and continuously improving cybersecurity posture. Cybersecurity is not only documented and compliant. It is genuinely strong in practice over all KIDAN.
  
• KIDAN is recognized internally and externally as a credible cybersecurity partner, not simply an IT company that also sells cybersecurity. KIDAN is able to confidently demonstrate its cyber maturity to enterprise customers.
  
• Our cybersecurity offering is relevant, technically strong, differentiated and commercially valuable.
  
• Our SOC and cybersecurity services are delivered consistently, professionally and to a high standard. All are continuously challenged and improved.
  
• KIDAN's cybersecurity revenue grows because customers trust our expertise and see clear value in our offering.
  
• Enterprise customers know they have a senior, credible cybersecurity expert they can trust and escalate to.
  
• Cyber risks, incidents and compliance gaps are identified early and acted upon.
  
• Technology and cybersecurity teams work closely together, with cybersecurity embedded into how KIDAN builds and delivers technology.
  

Requirements

• Strong senior experience in cybersecurity, security operations or a CISO-level role.
  
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity strategy, governance, risk, compliance and security operations.
  
• Experience managing or leading a SOC / cyber defense function.
  
• Strong understanding of enterprise cybersecurity and cybersecurity service delivery.
  
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers and senior stakeholders.
  
• Strong ability to challenge technical and business decisions and communicate cyber risk clearly.
  
• Experience with ISO 27001 and relevant cybersecurity frameworks 
  
• Fluent in French and English.
  
• German is a strong advantage.
  
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to connect cybersecurity capabilities to customer value and business growth.
  
• Hands-on, credible and comfortable operating across strategy, technology, delivery and customer conversations.